On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 03:40, Gary C Martin<[email protected]> wrote: > On 1 Jul 2009, at 10:54, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 18:14, Gary C Martin<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> - Showing tags under the title would be great (Tomeu, I will help where I >>> can) >> >> Hope to push my work on the journal treeview soon, then you can take >> it and do whatever graphics modifications you want. > > Fab. > >>> - Batch entry modification (FWIW, don't like the tick box, that feels >>> like >>> an old school html web form hack) >> >> Any alternative? > > I see multi selection Journal operations as a more advanced (occasional use) > feature, so it would be OK not being directly visually exposed. So, no tick > box column (save all that space for useful information), instead use a shift > key modifier so that when clicking an entry its selection state is toggled > on/off (grey backing fill of the entry row). When hovering over (or right > clicking) a multi selected entry, display a new palette with just the > features that function on a multiple selection. "Erase" being the obvious > multiple selection command asked for in the past; the other useful multiple > selection function would be drag and drop for copying a batch of Journal > entries to and from external media (i.e. teacher comes back from the city > with a USB stick full of downloaded ebooks).
gtk.TreeViews have multiple selection support. Would be very cool if someone could play with the several options and report back: http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gtktreeview.html#method-gtktreeview--set-rubber-banding Some tweaking of the gtk theme may be needed to make it look right. >>> - Better Anything toolbar filter palette (use a grid layout to minimise >>> scrolling) >> >> Yeah, that will be great. I think Walter already submitted a patch to >> move the file types up. > > Yea, saw the patch from Walter, that alone should help even if we stall on > doing more. > > I have a mock-up I was experimenting with grid layouts, still tinkering, and > I can't think of a good 'filter' icon for the replacement button (a common > one seems to be a funnel shape) :-) > > The Journal filters for 'Anything', 'Anytime', the proposed 'Anyone', and my > below 'Tag' filters can all become toolbar icons (not text). This saves a > heap of toolbar space, and allows room for a couple more buttons on the far > right for 'Grid' and current 'List' view. Awesome, have high hopes about that. Regards, Tomeu >>> - Perhaps a Tag toolbar filter palette (could be a mini tag cloud) >> >> Could you draw a quick napkin mockup to illustrate that? > > > Sure, but don't think I'll have anything in time for the dev meeting. > > Regards, > --Gary > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
